i'm very excited about the words of encouragement that i've been receiving from others, and the advice i've been given to help me deal with and lessen the pain of my shin splints. i ran in the Gobbler Grind 5K this morning with co-worker jamie and we made it our goal to run it in 30:00. I'll humbly say that jamie hasn't been running to the extent that i have so i did not run the first 1.5 mile like it was a race, but we were just out for a leisurely run amongst the thousands of runners. at the halfway point, jamie gave me the go-ahead to run on without her, so i ran the last 1.5 mile in just under 12:30. Finishing time was 29:40. Post-finish i felt great and even could have kept on running, or at least that's what i tell myself given the fact that i didn't actually have to run further. The shin twins did great, just a dull pain during the beginning of the race. Actually, i don't even know that i'd call it pain...they just let me know that they were still trying to control my running life.
this past week's total: 12 miles....2 mile track time...16:45 (which i, for some reason, decided to run on the coldest night of the week)
195 days until San Diego. that's less than 200. eeek!